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As the Courier ran through the X-8 facility multiple times, the computers analyzed the test subject's movements. Rather than performing a superficial observation, they realized the subject barely knew what Communism was - or even what a high school was.
”— Old World Blues ending slideThe X-8 research center is a location in the Big MT, to the far east of The Think Tank.
Layout
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- Walking left when you enter will take you to the X-8 splicing facility terminal where you can splice creatures.
- The building also houses its own high school (loosely based on American High) where you can get the sonic emitter EM Pulse Wave Upgrade that will allow you to drop force fields.
Notable lootEdit
- The dog and lobotomite splicing experiment holotape can be found on the table next to the X-8 observatory terminal in the testing facility.
- The dog and robot splicing experiment holotape can be found in the first room to the right of the main entrance. It lies on a table in the center of the room.
- The sonic emitter upgrade 'EMP Pulse Wave' is obtained here by completing the basic institutional test. It is then available at the beginning of the advanced institutional test.
- The upgrade schematics for FIDO are in the kennel by the terminal. The key for the kennel must first be obtained from the X-13 research facility.
- The robot and nightstalker splicing experiment holotape can be found on top of one of the nightstalker kennels.
- Sonic emitter - Gabriel's bark at the end of the residential test facility, in random digging spot.
Related questsEdit
- A Brain's Best Friend
- Field Research
- Sonic Emitter Upgrade
- X-8 Data Retrieval Test
- X-8: High School Horror!
NotesEdit
- The terminals in the high school may change their location from test to test.
- When splicing two creatures together, if you splice lobotomite and a dog together, they will always end up a failed experiment and both will be dead, when failing an experiment for the first time you complete a challenge that rewards 100XP.
- Splicing together a robot and a night stalker will result in a robobrain that attacks a spot near the doorway with laser fire until it self destructs eight seconds later or is destroyed by the player.
- It is also possible to splice together a lobotomite and a robot, creating a robobrain, the robobrain will self-destruct after a short time of talking.
- Roxie, a temporary cyberdog companion, can be obtained by splicing a dog and robot together. Roxie will only follow the player around the X-8 Research Center. She can be used for the tests, but will not sneak with the player and runs toward any hostile in the area.
- After 3 tests at the terminal, 24 in-game hours must pass in order for the system to "restock" test subjects.
- On a wall in the high school area, "Why me, Mobius" is spelled out on the wall in large, physical letters.
- One of the jars with a lump of brain inside from Point Lookout is on the desk near the entrance to the facility.
- There are two beds in the institutional testing facility, walk forward through the double doors in between the bookcases, then turn left. The beds will be located in the NW corner of the room.
AppearancesEdit
X-8 research center appears only in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Old World Blues.
Behind the scenesEdit
- A terminal on level two mentions Project: Burke and Project: Hare. Burke and Hare were infamous 19th century serial killers who murdered people to sell their bodies as cadavers for anatomy classes. Project: Burke and Hare are both regarding procurement of bodies for scientific experimentation.
- The created robobrain's short speech is a reference to the whale from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
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- In the high school area there will be a Wild Wasteland moment where you will see the phrase "Wolverines" written on the wall. This is a reference to the movie Red Dawn, as the Wolverines is a resistance group composed of high-schoolers, taken from the name of their football team, after their school (and America) is invaded by the Russians in the beginning of the movie.
- In the cyberdog training area, you may find another Wild Wasteland Moment where you will look in a window to find a few cyberdogs playing Poker. It refers collectively to a series of sixteen oil paintings by C. M. Coolidge, commissioned in 1903 by Brown & Bigelow to advertise cigars. Known in Pop Culture as just Dogs Playing Poker paintings. In between the closest dog on the right and the left is an ace of clubs, just like in the painting.
- It is similar to Fallout Tactics special encounter Brahmin Poker.
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BugsEdit
- Splicing a Dog and a robot may create a goo pile under Roxie, the goo pile cant be searched unless Roxie is killed. Trying to search the goo pile while Roxie is alive will trigger her to talk to you.[verified]
- Splicing a lobotomite and a dog can end in an odd bug of a lobotomite with no torso and eyes standing over the dead dog and some scattered remains. [verified]
GalleryEdit
X-8 splicing experiment bug
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